William Prothero wrote:
> I'm considering purchasing a Kindle Fire so I can take my books with
> me on a trip to Spain without fear of losing my iPad Pro, which costs
> 10 times as much as the Kindle.
>
> I'm wondering, tho, if anybody is making apps for Kindle with
> livecode. I read, in the Kindle reviews, that the Kindle doesn't
> access the Google App Store. So I'm wondering if the Kindle is a
> viable test platform for Android apps.
Very much so. I would consider Amazon's FireOS an essential deployment
for serious developers.
At 4% Amazon's market share isn't as big as Apple's 25.8% or Samsung's
15.6%, but it is by far the fastest-growing at 1200% YoY:
<http://marketingland.com/apple-owns-tablet-market-amazon-growth-leader-186803>
Lat year I got the Amazon Fire 7" tablet, which lists for US$49.99 and
patient people can usually pick it up on sales throughout the year for
US$39.99. Amazing hardware for that price point. Not a top-of-the-line
tablet for forty bucks, but certainly beyond others below US$60. I
don't even like tablets, but I find myself reading on that one often.
And if you need a 7" Android-compatible tablet for testing, the low
price makes it a no-brainer to round out your test pool.
Amazon's business model with devices is to sell the hardware super-cheap
and recoup on content sales. This makes their devices generally good
consumer values, but at the cost of convenience for long-time Android
fans, since Google Play is not installed.
It's possible to install Google Play, but only through a lot of work.
Few bother. I didn't.
Most consumers will use the device as-is, but not an impediment to
developers: Amazon's dev site appears at least as easy to work with as
Google's (Jacque may be able to provide more hands-on feedback on that).
During testing both stock Android and Amazon's rebranded FireOS are
super-easy to deploy to. And since the same Android build will run on
both flavors, the modest time required to set up a dev account at Amazon
is an easy choice to justify given the size of their audience and the
smaller number of apps there competing for attention.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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